Thousands of Jersey Central Power & Light customers were without power Monday morning, according to the utility's outage map.

The cause of the outages was not immediately available from JCP&L, but the utility estimated power would be restored around 11 a.m. A noon review of the outage map showed power had been almost completely restored.

Aberdeen was hit hardest, with 1,277 customers in the dark as of around 8:30 a.m., according to JCP&L. Marlboro showed 597 customers without power.

Countywide, there were 2,096 outages. That number had dropped to 2,049 by 8:40 a.m.

By afternoon there were only 57 customers without power in Monmouth County, according to the utility.